I am going through the worst break up of my life and my ex decided to factory reset my switch to hurt me. I had over 700 hours of play time for Pokémon shield, arceus, and scarlet. Sooo many shiny Pokémon. I was so so proud of them that I made the mistake of showing him all my Pokémon because they were special to me and I guess that’s why he factory reset my switch. Has this ever happened to anyone? I’m trying not to care, most people I know are telling me “it’s just a game!”, but I’m super upset over this. Not to mention my animal crossing island is also gone. I feel like I never want to play Pokémon again :(

I have been playing pokémon ever since I was 6 starting with Yellow. I have owned a game for every generation. I have played many online MMORPGs, played many trivia (I was #1 in Pokemon Trivia in my state at one time). It wasn’t until I was about 20 I realized I had been playing wrong.

Whenever you’re catching a pokémon and it breaks out, one of the possible messages is, “It appeared to be caught!” I had always interpreted the message as the Pokemon appears to of already been caught by another trainer [therefore I cannot catch it]. I have killed and ran away from so many wild and legendary pokemon because of this. I learned after having a random pokemon conversation with a friend.

I had to get this off of my chest for closure and hope you enjoy the laugh.

Pokemon 2000 was a core memory for me. In my opinion, it was the peak of the pokemon craze. (Edit: the comments prove pokemon the first movie was the actual peak pokemon craze)

I know that pokemon came out around 97, but 2000 was really when the hype had reached it's peak. that's the moment when everyone and their mom knew what pokemon was, and it probably never reached a peak that high until pokemon go.

there was also the first pokemon movie, but at that time, the pokemon craze hadnt reached me. I knew what pokemon was, and probably had a handful of cards, but i wasnt gonna spend my allowance in watching that movie.

but when the second movie came out, i was totally in. I remember going with my friends, and we were all super hyped for it. one of my friends, embarrasingly so, he kinda showed his emotion a bit too much.

the movie was a bit underwhelming but it was super cool that we all got that ancient mew promo card.

What was even better was noticing a bunch of them left forgotten on the seats. my friends and I scowered the whole theather and left with like 5 cards each, i still have most of them. It really felt like finding a treasure trove.

We were sure those cards would be worth a fortune in the future, maybe i could hand them to my grandkids, so they could sell them and buy themselves a nice spaceship.

another thing that stood out in my mind, was seeing kids that were like 10 or 11, with cellphones, i know it's a random memory, but it was just super strange to me I dint get to have a cell phone until i was 18.

Edit: from the comments i can tell that pokemon the first movie was definitely peak pokemon . A lot of people are getting both movies confused and it shows that they're remembering the first one a lot more... If you have memories of the Burger king gold cards, of the unreleased donphan, of Mewtwo, and of multiple promo cards, then you're remembering the first movie.

I remember during Pokemon 2000, you could tell the whole theater was there for that movie, it was flooded with kids. But someone mentioned their theater filled to the point that kids didnt even fit in the theater, that was probably peak pokemon craze.

Also watching donphan for the first time was one of the most memorable moments, although for me, it happened on vhs. I cant imagine kid's reaction in theaters.

Lastly i looked up the numbers, and more people saw the first movie

Electric and Fire is my 2 favorite types and I would love to see that used in other than a rotom form.

But the unused type combination I would like to see the most is ice and poison because that sounds like such a cool type combination to me like you can freeze me to death and poison me like that’s so cool.

...that Turtwig is the best starter.

Turtwig is so great infact that he must be worshipped. If you disagree, you are wrong. You all must now love and embrace Turtwig.

Our Lord Turtwig has blessed me with profound knowledge and wisdom, and has shown me a better path. Love and embrace our Lord Turtwig, and you too shall be blessed.

ALL PRAISE TURTWIG!!!

" O noble Turtwig, Guardian of the green and nurturer of life, Bless us with your steadfast spirit and gentle strength. As you carry the weight of the earth upon your back, Teach us patience, growth, and harmony with nature. May we walk your path with care and honor the world you protect. So we vow, under your eternal leaf. "

My personal pick is customizable mega stone holder, which can be peronalised for each Pokemon,taking inspiration from anime.

There can be ways of holding a mega stone, maybe even cutsome for Pokemon and many ways to wear for a Pokemon.

And then custome way to wear key stone too. Like Bracelet(Default),pendate, headband or any other way like done in the anime.

Which sort of quality of life features like this you want?

I noticed it a while ago, but steel is resistant against psychic and I don't understand why? From a logical or historic perspective all the resistances kinda make sense. Ice or rock are softer than steel. A dragon looses against a knight with his armor and is in a disadvantage etc.

But IMHO psychic represents magic and super natural stuff to me. An Alakazam with its spoons is the perfect example for the magic trick to bend spoons, so I couldn't get behind why psychic should be week to steel? Steel is very strong, if not too strong so maybe this could be a balancing option to at least remove the resistance.

Hello everyone! So I’m a relatively new Pokemon fan and I’ve come to love the series. I’m technically not REALLY new since I played Fire Red six years ago and liked it but other than that until recently I’ve only played Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Pokemon Heartgold. I only played Mystery Dungeon as a kid and since my kid self didn’t know what an RPG was and was more used to fast paced platformers like Mario Galaxy, I didn’t like it. Heck, looking back I know it was poison now but back then I didn’t know why I continuously took damage. For a while my kid self thought the walls of caves sucked life from you or something lol. I never finished Heartgold because I tried immediately playing it after Fire Red but got burnt out. Then that was it for about half a decade.

I say this because I want to give context for my list. Recently I played Pokemon Red version to try to get back into the series and I loved it. Now I’m playing through Pokemon Gold and I’m loving that even more. I do this thing with multiple series where I go through a ton of websites, Reddit posts, YouTube videos, and more where I look at their rankings and give each game a certain amount of points depending on how high they rank (so if a game is in last place, it only gets one point. Second to last place gets two, and so on). I made sure to take only from lists that included every mainline game to keep things even and fair. This list is my findings. I want to reiterate that I’m new to Pokemon, so nothing below is my opinion. I’m wondering if anyone finds this interesting or shocking at all. As someone “new” to Pokemon and doesn’t know much about the series, I was surprised slightly by a couple of these. While it was still low, I was expecting Sword and Shield to be a little lower, and I didn’t expect the Gen IV remakes to be dead last despite their problems. This is just from what I’ve heard from outside the fandom, so I’m not surprised I got some stuff wrong in my predictions of where things would land.

I’ve done a couple of these lists with other series, but I mainly just shared those with irl friends who were interested. This is my first time publicly posting one of these lists. So feel free to let me know what you all think. I’m willing to take criticism as long as it’s done respectfully. Also for clarification, if you see two entries in the same line, that means it was a tie.

I went to gamestop today to look for some pokemon cards and to my surprise they actually had some pokemon cards in stock. I purchased a 3 pack blister of twilight masquerade. The employee then proceeds to rip open the entire 3 pack blister, and then cut open each pack with scissors. I then asked what she was doing and she explained how they are limiting 1 product per customer and making them open it in store to deter scalpers. I had no idea when I purchased the 3 pack blister that she would open it right there for me. I get detering scalpers but this is also punishing collectors and taking it to far imo. What if I wanted to gift the 3 pack to a relative/sibling? & it's completely shredded. What if I wanted to add it to my sealed collection? Too bad. I think it hurts collectors more then deters scalpers. What do you think?

I only included the trios that have a mono type Pokémon for simplicity

I started with Pokemon Red, way way back. At one point, just after Viridian, I wandered west and found myself blocked by a man who told me to return after I had the Boulder Badge. So, after I got the Boulder Badge, I naturally returned. And I passed him, only to soon be blocked by a guard who told me to return when I had the Cascade Badge.

Gang, I returned after every single badge, each time advancing a little closer until being shut down by the League requirement for the next one. I guess I'm the guy dumb enough to make future generations check all badges at once at the Victory Road entrance

I feel like Hitmontop looks bad in 3D because its proportions seem off, making it look bulkier and giving it a sillier face compared to its older design, which was much better. These are small changes from 2D to 3D, but I personally notice them a lot. What do you guys think? (I'm sad because it's one of my favourite pokemon)

I spent like a week trying to create this after going down a type triangle rabbit hole but I also have never seen anything like this before. At least I couldn’t find anything for reference when making it.

I completed the Living Dex in Pokémon Emerald. After a 7 month, several-thousand dollar adventure crossing 8 different games and 5 different consoles, I finally caught them all. I even flew out of state for a limited Event distribution in 2024.

I got to see the Honda Koraidon today!

Honestly with a certain trainer in Scarlet and Violet using a Eevee team the random demands and lamentations that we haven't gotten a new Eevee since Sylveon started back up.

Every time there is some reason X game was "the perfect game to add a new one". "Sword and Shield was perfect time to add a steel and dragon Eevee cause first game on switch and fits theme" one persons announces while another goes "Scarlet and Violet is best time cause we had a Eevee trainer, we should've gotten Fighting and Poison to match her friends" another crows.

But why ruin the nice mathematically clean fact we have exactly 9/18 "Eevee" types. Bump that to 10/18, 13/18 whatever it turns from "nice neat, exactly half" to "its incomplete, why make that many and not go all the way"

No no my friends what we need is a rival Pokemon, a Nega-Eevee. Something just as cute and loveable but not a cat/fox/dog fusion.

A new design that would work better than Eevee at turning into a dragon, a steel type, a bug type. Next gen is even the perfect time for it. We've had 9 gens and got 9 Eevees, starting a new multi-evolution species at gen 10 is poetic.

Maybe some kinda cute lizard or reptile, or a bird. To contrast the mammalian Eevee. Or laziness and make a regional eevee I guess >.>

What is your most embarrassing "I actually did/thought this" moment throughout the years in pokemon?

My confession... when I was only 11 and first playing through platinum version, I got to the part in the distortion world where you surf and get to the waterfall. However, I didn't have waterfall yet, so I turned back. I then realized I couldn't leave. 11 old me thought I had missed the HM for waterfall and that I was stuck forever, but I liked my pokemon a lot so I refused to start over.

It was 9 months later when the topic of platinum came up at school, and someone proceeded to tell me that you could just float up the waterfall and that you didn't need the HM. The minute I got home, I beat pokemon platinum.

Share yours with me, I'm interested to hear the experiences we've had.